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Tower House Parlor. View from south. Hypothetical portraits of Edmund Spenser and his wife Elizabeth Boyle are on the facing wall. A harp rests at the ready.

Tower House Parlor. View from north. The doorway to the downward stairwell can be seen on the left. The 'Raleigh window' can be seen facing center. The room would be used for dining and recreation. Pewter dishes are on the sideboard, wall-shelves and table. A harp can be seen facing on the right. The room has oak paneling for warmth. The floor is littered with straw. The stone-flagged floor rests on the storage-room vault below, and wooden rafters hold up the ceiling beneath the storage room, above.

Tower House Storage Room and Armory. On view are swords, helmets, 'darts,' shields and armor, including quilted jacks, a.k.a. 'checklaton' in Spenser's writing.

Tower House Storage Room and Armory. View from the east. The skull is of an Irish elk, already long extinct by Spenser's time.

Tower House Storage Room and Armory. View from above. A wooden floor partitions the room from the parlor below it. Near the north wall is a simple bed for visitors. Entrance to the staircase is on the left

Tower House Chapel. View from the west of the east window. Spenser compares the 'lookes' of 'Cynthia', or Queen Elizabeth I, in his poem, 'Colin Clouts Come Home Againe', as being 'like beames of the morning sun,/ Forth looking through the windowes of the east,/ When first the fleecie cattell have begun/ Upon the perled grasse to make their feast.' (lines 604-07)

Tower House Chapel. View from above. Windows face south and east.

Tower House Chapel. View from the east. The entrance to the staircase, to the north, is on the right out of sight. A window is on the south wall. The make-shift altar (a table and cloth) stands beneath the east window. A small recess in the wall, or aumbry, containing a leather vessel for wine, a pewter plate and chalice (for religious services) can be seen on the right.

Tower House Chapel. View from the east. A late-medieval mural fresco of St. Christopher, who holds the Christ child and is trampling a snake (representing the devil), are on the facing wall.

Tower House Study. View from above. The Faerie Queene by Spenser is open on his desk.

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